HMS Royal Sovereign (1786)

HMS Royal Sovereign was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy that was launched on 11 September 1786 and broken up in 1841. The ship served as the flagship for Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood at the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, and the ship was known as the "West Country Wagon" due to its poor maneuverability and speed. Royal Sovereign cut the enemy line alone and took on the powerful Spanish Navy ship Santa Ana, with Collingwood telling his men that he wished that Horatio Nelson was on board to witness the act; coincidentally, Nelson praised Collingwood's bravery to his own men at the same time. After Trafalgar, the ship would serve in the Channel fleet, and it captured the American ship Asia on 5 August 1812. In 1826, the ship was relegated to harbor duty, and it was broken up in 1841.